Andrea Jones

Nisi Shawl is the James Tiptree, Jr. Award-winning author of the novel Everfair and numerous optimistic speculative fictions. She took part in Slate’s Trump Story Project – where 10 writers were invited to imagine the dystopian future of Trump’s...

Edan Lepucki is the New York Times bestselling author of the novel California. Her new novel, Woman No.17, will be released May 9. Maverick blog talked to her about taking part in Slate’s Trump Story Project. Why did you take part in Slate’s...

Ben Winters is the author of nine novels, including most recently the New York Times bestselling Underground Airlines. He recently edited Slate’s Trump Story Project. Maverick blog talked to him about writing and #resisting. Why did you...

A few days ago, I was looking through an early cut of my East meets West immigration novel. It was full of the usual writer fails: adverbs, self-indulgent speech tags – and this protracted rant form the anti-heroine: Martyrdom. We have that...

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About Me

Andrea Jones is a British journalist, author and outlier. She looks at the status quo and instead of just saying sure, asks why?
The question that usually follows is what if … ? What if everything dark and destructive in our society could be challenged by the power of subversion and storytelling…?